Improved blacking-box



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Letters Paten t' N o. 85,'( )84da`ted December IMPROVED BLACKINGBOX.

The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.

had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of.

this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a box off-shoeblacking having my improvement applied thereto, and

Figure 2, a plan viewof the same, withontitsuslal lid or cover.

Like letters of reference indicate-the same parts when in both figures.

In the'course of using shoc-blacking, by taking it upon a wet shoe-brush, rubbed over its surface in the usual tin-boxes, it soon becomes dry and deteriorated; and besides, the motion required in the wet 4brush in taking up the blaoking is attended with an objectionable spattering and waste of the blacking.

he principal object of my improvement-is to p revent the objectionable results mentioned.

My invention consists in the application, to a blacking-,box, of a loose annular' plate or perforated disk, of thin sheet-tilntin-foil, or any other thin non-'absorbent material, which canbe applied directly upon the surface of the blacking in the box, so as to continually keep the surface ofthe same from exposure to the air, and from contact with the shoe-brush, except ata small hole or holes in or nea-r th'c middle of the said covering,

plate, or disk, substantially as hereii'iafter described A;'

and also, in combination .with the said perforated covering-plate or disk,the applicationof oiled paper, or its equivalent, so as to protect the surface of the blacking at the hole or holes in the middle of the said cov'-v ering from exposure to the air until the box is required to be opened lfor using the blacking, 'as hereinafter described. y

Referring:r to the drawings- A B is the usual cylindrical blacking-box:

O, the contained blaeking;

D, the annular plate or perforated disk; and

E, the oiled paper. v

The plate or disk D is` cut to it accurately witliin thebody, B, of the box, and has one or more openings, d', in its middle.

, The oiled jpaper E is of considerably less diameter than the plate or disk D, but of greater diameter than the perfbrated portion of the saine.

Operation.

The body, B, of the box, is filled with the blackingpaste C in the usual manner, the oiled paper E is then laid down upon the middle of its surface, and the perforated disk or plate D then adjusted within the rim of' the box, and pressed closelydown in contact with the oiled paper E andthe blacking-paste, thus causing the plate to adhere to the blaeking, and keep the paper E als'o in close, air-tightcontact with the same. substantially as represented in fig. 1.

Itwill therefore be seen that the surface of the blacking in the box will -be kept securely from exposure to the air whilst inthe package or on sale, and that when required for use, by cutting the paper E loose, and removing it, a suicient surface will be exposed for the application of'a wet shoe-brushin the, usual manner, without wetting thesurface under the plate or disk D, and without spattering; and wasting lthe blacking, as heretobre; and nearly the whole surface of the blacking-in the box being thus protected, it will not ber subject to the drying up and deterioration before mentioned I Q The box may be made either square or cylindrical, the plate or disk beingfof colnse shaped to fit it. I

As the blacking is used 'away at the perforation d in the middle of the plate D, a fresh supply will be raised therein 'by simply pressing dowlL the said plate by ones fingers, or by theI brush.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure.

by Letters Patent, is conlined to the following, viz:

- l. I claim the application to a blacking-box of the perforated plate or disk D, substantially as and for the.

purpose described.

2. 1 also claim the employment of theoiled paper E, in combination with the perforated plate or disk D, when the saine are applied to a filled box of blacking', substantially as and for the purpose described.

` A'VVASHN L. GILROY. Witnesses BnNJ. Moinson, WM. H. Momsos. 

